Russia on Wednesday launched a wave of missiles and drones at Ukrainian energy facilities, intensifying a months-long bombing campaign at a precarious moment of the war for Ukraine.
The dam arrived a day after kyiv said he had led its largest air attack in the Russian army factories and the kilometers of the front line.
The Ukrainian Air Force said Russia introduced 43 cruise and ballistic missiles, as well as 74 attack drones in the dam, which basically pointed to sites in western Ukraine.
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Oleksandra Komuna, an elderly resident of the western village of Sknyliv, was in the house of the attack when lamps and plaster began to fall.
“All the doors and windows were blown up, everything exploded. The broken car and the broken roof. There were cracks everywhere,” he said. It’s a mess. “
The Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, quickly to condemn movements and requested a more powerful security assistance of allies abroad.
“Another massive Russian attack. It is the middle of winter, and the target for the Russians remains the same: our energy sector,” he wrote on social media.
The Russian Defense Ministry demonstrated in a briefing that its forces had made “high-precision” moves in the comfort of power that “support the Ukrainian commercial army complex. “
He repeated the statement that all the designated objectives had been achieved.
However, the Ukrainian air force said that it had shot down 30 of the missiles and 47 drones, while Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmygal said the Russian attack had “failed”.
Hours after the barrage, Zelenskiy called on the West to use about US$250 billion of unallocated frozen Russian assets to buy Kyiv weapons. He was speaking at a press conference in Warsaw with Polish President Andrzej Duda.
“Ukraine will take this money, allocate a large amount for domestic production and for the import of exactly those types of weapons that Ukraine does not have,” he said.
Last week, the EU paid kyiv for the first 3 billion euros (3. 1 billion dollars) of a loan backed through frozen Russian assets.
The US Department of State on Wednesday announced new sanctions on “more than 150 individuals and entities involved in Russia’s defense industry and supporting its military-industrial base.”
Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, elected president Donald Trump, said the new administration would seek “daring diplomacy” to end the war.
“There will have to be concessions made by the Russian Federation, but also by the Ukrainians,” he said.
Moscow has continued a crusade of months bombing opposed to the power infrastructure of Ukraine, saying that the attacks went to the comforts that the military of Kyiv.
The Russian army had accused kyiv of the American and American missiles for one of the movements the previous day and promised that “it would not happen without response. “
On Wednesday night, in the Oblast Voronezh in Russia, which borders Ukraine, several drones “began a fireplace in an oil tank,” said Voronezh governor Alexander Gasev, on Telegram, when the videos published through witnesses showed A really extensive fireplace.
kyiv and Moscow missile attacks and Moscow are at a difficult time for Ukraine through front expansion.
At several key moments in the northern Kharkiv and eastern Donetsk regions, Russian forces were able to make progress through the operation of their workers’ and resource corps benefits.
Building on those gains, the Russian defense ministry on Wednesday said that its forces had captured the village of Ukrainka in the industrial Donetsk region that the Kremlin claims is part of Russia.
Although the war has been going on for about 3 years, there are still spaces for cooperation between Moscow and Kyiv, which announced on Wednesday that they had exchanged 25 prisoners of war each.